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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Friday, 8 November 2013

Any country with a nuclear plant is a bomb factory どの国でも、原発を保有していれば、爆弾を抱えた工場のようなもの

(Source)
http://rt.com/op-edge/nuclear-energy-threat-risks-342/#_=_
There
are countries who are selling nuclear reactors all around the world,
which means they are not only selling cancer and leukemia to the
future generations, but also atomic bombs, anti-nuclear advocate Dr.
Helen Caldicott said in RT’s Google Hangout.During
the hangout, Helen Caldicott, answered a variety of RT readers’
questions on topics, ranging from those of immediate importance, like
the Fukushima crisis, to the prospects of humanity living through the
nuclear age. Q:Should
we all move to Africa in case TEPCO fails to remove the spent fuel
rods?

Helen Caldicott: Number one: this
is an impossibility. There are billions of people in the Northern
Hemisphere and what happens is that if there is a huge release of
radiation from Fukushima by accident or by the fuel rods burning, or
a fission reaction taking place, the radiation will circulate from
west to east around the Northern Hemisphere, but as air masses at the
equator, the Northern and Southern Hemisphere air masses do not mix,
so most of the fallout in the air will occur in the Northern
Hemisphere. And it’s a physical impossibility, of course, to move
people to the Southern Hemisphere. Some people might do that, but
it’s a terrible situation, because there’s nothing medical people
can do about decontaminating people, you can’t decontaminate food,
you can’t decontaminate the air that people are breathing.

So we’re facing a potential catastrophe in terms of public
health. People should know, though, that it takes a long time to get
cancer after you’ve inhaled, breathed in or eaten radioactive
materials, like, anytime from two to 80 years. But it is a very
serious situation.

'No
food testing in Japan, govt lying to you’

Q:I
live in Tokyo and worry about health impact. When it comes to only
cesium, soils here contain 100 becquerels per kilogram of cesium-134
and 137, and about 20 per cent of foods have a few becquerels per
kilogram to 10 becquerels per kilogram. Please let me know your
opinion on health impact and the reasons you think so.

HC: First of all, parts of Tokyo are extremely
radioactive. They’ve taken dirt from the streets, moss from the
roofs, and dust from vacuum cleaners inside apartments. And in some
cases there are very high measurements of cesium and strontium and
other such elements, literally over a hundred elements in the fallout
apart from cesium-137 and 134. People in Tokyo, actually, many of
them, are at great risk. That’s number one. Number
two, it’s very difficult to know what to eat in Japan because you
can’t taste or smell or see radioactive elements in your food. And
each dose of radiation that you get adds to the risk of getting
cancer. And as you eat more and more radioactive food, more
radioactivity builds up in various organs of your body. There is
little testing of food in Japan, the government is lying to you, and
they are encouraging the farmers in Fukushima to grow their food,
which is really criminal because there’s a hell of a lot of fallout
on the ground, in Fukushima, and the radiation concentrates back from
the soil into rice, green vegetables, milk, meat, and the like.
They are even promoting the Fukushima food in Korea when I
was there, and in Taiwan, but also in Tokyo and other places, also in
markets in England, so the situation is very grim. And I think if I
lived in Tokyo, I would move south. And I would be very, very careful
about what I eat. I would only eat food coming from the south of
Japan, and I wouldn’t eat any fish because they are pouring huge
amounts of radiation into the Pacific Ocean every day. And you don’t
know which fish are radioactive and which are not. Q:Chernobyl
happened in 1986, with very radioactive rain over Europe. 40 percent
of European area is now covered with radiation.

HC:40 per cent of the food in Europe is radioactive. I do not buy
European food or Japanese food. Luckily, I live in Australia, but if
you live in America, you need not to eat Japanese or European food
because you don’t know what food is radioactive and what is not.
And medically, you mustn’t eat any radiation in food! And what’s
more, Europe will remain radioactive for hundreds or thousands of
years!

And that’s so, too, with Fukushima. And the
report of the national Academy of Sciences in New York about
Chernobyl says [that] by now, about over a million people have died,
not only of cancer and leukaemia, but from other diseases from the
radioactive fallout, in Europe, as well as in Ukraine and Russia. And
if you extrapolate that data to Japan, [which is] much more densely
populated, we’re going to see a lot of cancers. Already, in
two-and-a-half years, they’ve diagnosed, or suspectedly diagnosed,
44 cases of thyroid cancer, and thyroid cancer is extremely rare, one
in a million children get thyroid cancer. So this indicates [that]
those children and everyone else have received extremely high doses
of radioactive iodine and lots of other elements, so that bodes very
badly for the future, for the Japanese people.

Q:We
have learnt there were soya plants beginning to grow in Chernobyl.
Why can’t we do genetic studies on them and adopt them in stable
food crops to deal with radioactive exposure in farmlands?

HC: Let me tell you there’s a wonderful
scientist called Timothy Mousseau, who is an evolutionary biologist,
who is going into exclusion zones, very radioactive zones around
Chernobyl and Fukushima, to the detriment of his own health. He is
looking at the birds and the insects, and the wildlife, plants in
those areas, and [found], first of all, that birds he was looking at
have smaller than normal brains because developing brains are very
sensitive to the effects of radiation. Many of the male birds are
sterile which means that they will die out. They are covered with
mutations, they have crooked tails, crooked wings, white patches on
them. Many of them have cataracts in their eyes.

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Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.